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Out-of-home care: Talking about mental illness with children in your care

Amelia Payne — Mon, 15 May 2023 00:43:12 +0000

Talking to the children in your care about their parent's mental illness can help them make meaning of their family's situation, remove stigma and let them know they can talk to you when they need support.

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How to use the Emerging Minds child care plan templates

Jocelyn Marsland — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 03:17:01 +0000

This document steps parents and practitioners through the process of completing Emerging Minds child care plan templates.

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My child’s care plan

Amelia Payne — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 00:15:44 +0000

This plan contains information to be used to help care for a child should a parent or caregivers become unavailable to care for them themselves.

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Baby care plan template

Sun, 29 Oct 2017 11:02:50 +0000

This care plan template is designed for parents to complete regarding the care of their infant when they are unwell or unavailable.

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Care plan template – for children and young people

Sun, 29 Oct 2017 08:52:54 +0000

This care plan template is designed for young people to complete with the guidance of their parent, providing instructions for their care when their parents are unwell or unavailable.

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Self-care plan – blank

Amelia Payne — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 00:56:55 +0000

This planner can help you to identify your own personal signs of stress and plan strategies that may help you to manage your own stress and emotions.

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Self-care plan – completed

Amelia Payne — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 00:56:55 +0000

Use this planner to see examples that will help you to identify your own personal signs of stress and plan strategies.

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Recognising and strengthening the stories of children in care

Renee Naylon — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 06:27:35 +0000

This paper identifies practical ways professionals working with children who are in care can bring children’s histories to life in ways that support their sense of identity and confidence, even when children’s experiences with their birth families included trauma or neglect.

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Supporting families while they wait for a health care service

Renee Naylon — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 02:33:05 +0000

Extended wait times to access health services can be harmful for children and their family, but health care practitioners can support families on a waitlist through regular communication and contact, planning, identifying informal supports, and providing information and resources to support them through the waiting period.

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Supporting children’s participation through shared decision-making in child mental health care

Amelia Payne — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 01:49:43 +0000

This paper is part of a suite of resources focusing on children’s participation in decisions that affect them.

This resource introduces practitioners to the concepts of children’s participation and shared decision making in children’s mental health care.

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Interpreting your Results Wheels and developing your action plan in Emerging Minds Focus

Jacquie Lee — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 23:20:20 +0000

This guide has been developed to support Change Teams to interpret their Results Wheels and develop an action plan within the Emerging Minds Focus quality improvement tool.

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Children with anxiety and depression may be at greater risk due to gaps in care

Jennifer Ly — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 03:43:46 +0000

Depression and anxiety are two of the most common mental health disorders which, together, affect around one in five children and adolescents. With a lack of research on services for depression and anxiety in children, a study led by the Australian Institute of Health called the Care Track Kids project provided a detailed picture of how Australian children with anxiety or depression are treated, and how much of this treatment is in accordance with clinical practice guidelines (CPGs).

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Post-natal care: Making the most of your first session with parents

Jennifer Ly — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 03:23:59 +0000

Prenatal care often focuses on preparing the parents for birth, but not necessarily about caring for their baby following the birth. Some first-time parents may feel unprepared to care for a newborn; therefore this is a time when they seek information and reassurance. Child Health Nurses (CHNs) are well-placed to provide new parents with information and reassurance. This resource provides CHNs with practical strategies for making the most of their first session with clients – particularly parents living in vulnerable circumstances.

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National Action Plan for the Health of Children and Young People 2020–2030

Amelia Payne — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 05:34:40 +0000

This plan outlines the approach to improving health outcomes for all children and young people.

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Fourth National Mental Health Plan: An agenda for collaborative government action in mental health 2009-2014

Tue, 31 Oct 2017 08:50:50 +0000

This document, launched by the Australian Health Ministers' Conference (AHMC) in November 2009, is the product of twelve months of development work including a comprehensive stakeholder consultation process.

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How to make a safety plan

Tue, 07 Nov 2017 06:07:59 +0000

This webpage helps teenagers and young adults who are struggling with suicidal thoughts create a safety plan for when things get tough.

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Mental health treatment plan template

Amelia Payne — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 03:19:40 +0000

This table has been developed as a template for producing a mental health treatment plan when working with a child who may be experiencing mental health difficulties.

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Keeping in Touch (KIT) implementation action plan – AOD settings

Jacquie Lee — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 01:23:38 +0000

This action plan provides practical actions and recommendations to help you successfully implement the Keeping in Touch Menu in your setting.

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Keeping in Touch (KIT) implementation action plan – mental health settings

Jacquie Lee — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 01:22:40 +0000

This action plan provides practical actions and recommendations to help you successfully implement the Keeping in Touch Menu in your setting.

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Developing a plan: Common practice challenges in child mental health

Jennifer Ly — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 02:55:50 +0000

Based on a case study, this webinar with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) explores the skills required to respond to practice challenges including creating family-led support plans that address multiple factors that might be impacting the family, and putting supports in place when there is a lack of specialist services available, or there are long waitlists.

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Living Well: A Strategic Plan for Mental Health in NSW 2014-2024

Wed, 01 Nov 2017 00:33:32 +0000

The Strategic Plan sets out actions and future directions for reform of the mental health system in NSW. It maps a demanding agenda for change that puts people – not processes – at the heart of its thinking.

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How holistic pregnancy care promotes infant mental health

Emerging Minds — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 01:12:27 +0000

Children and young people’s healthy development is directly related to the nature and quality of the parenting they receive. The National Action Plan for the Health of Children and Young People 2020–2030 highlights that effective parenting support improves both immediate and long-term child outcomes, especially during the antenatal and early childhood period. But due to discrimination, psychosocial/language barriers, poor continuity of care and a lack of accessible, affordable, quality health services, many parents find it hard to get the support they need.

In this episode, Vicki Mansfield talks with Dr Lyndal Harborne, an obstetrician and gynecologist. Dr Harborne’s professional and personal experiences of motherhood have led her to become a compassionate advocate for holistic pregnancy care. She has learned that the provision of holistic care throughout pregnancy benefits both parent and infant mental health.

Dr Harborne talks about why it’s important for clinicians to take the time to understand parents’ psychosocial context. She explores how providing parents with choices can enable them to positively navigate pregnancy, birth and the transition to parenting. She shares her insights about post-natal depression, and advocates for talking about the ‘bad stuff’ so parents don’t feel alone and abandoned in their experiences.

In this episode you will learn:

the importance of having antenatal care that explores and understands the parent’s ‘bigger picture’ – not just their physical state, but also their emotional and mental health and their relationships with others [08:17]
why understanding perinatal vulnerabilities and having a multidisciplinary team is essential to best support the emotional wellbeing of parents [19:20]
the benefits of compassionately exploring the pressures parents feel in adjusting to parenting, and how these pressures impact upon parents’ moods and feelings about having children [20:43]
the importance of supporting parents after perinatal loss, and how miscarriages, stillbirths, neonatal deaths and other losses can leave parents feeling isolated and alone [24:35]

Further information and resources:

Keeping the infant and toddler in mind (online course)
Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future: Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families (online course)

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Supporting pre-teens presenting to the emergency department with mental health concerns

Renee Naylon — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 02:24:25 +0000

Sensitive care in the emergency department for pre-teen mental health presentations has the potential to improve pre-teens’ mental health trajectories while keeping families in the loop can improve their experiences of help-seeking and the uptake of discharge recommendations.

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Complex trauma through a trauma-informed lens: Supporting the wellbeing of infants and young children

Jennifer Ly — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 00:56:04 +0000

This resource introduces complex trauma and trauma-informed care, including their importance in supporting the wellbeing and mental health of infants and young children. It explores the possible effects of complex trauma in early childhood (i.e. birth through to five years), and aims to support professionals to use a ‘whole-child’ approach that considers how early life experiences (including trauma) may shape development and behaviour.

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Highlights in child mental health research: July 2025

Catherine Hoffman — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 06:54:07 +0000

The July 2025 research summary provides a selection of recently released papers, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses related to infant and child mental health. Each summary includes an introductory overview of the content for the month, followed by a list of selected articles. Each article is accompanied by a brief synopsis that presents the key messages and highlights. Links to abstracts, full-text articles and related resources, where available, are provided.

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Primary health support for bullying in the middle years: Learnings for practitioners

Renee Naylon — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 06:10:54 +0000

Primary health care practitioners have an important role to play in identifying and responding to bullying, and in doing so, supporting child wellbeing.

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Working and walking alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people: A practical guide for non-Indigenous workers

Jacquie Lee — Mon, 25 May 2020 23:58:45 +0000

To fully understand the lives and circumstances of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, it is necessary to understand and accept the impacts of trauma across generations, without judgement, but with clear insight and intention to use your skills and capacities for healing.

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Supporting children and families: How does co-design invite us to think differently?

Jacquie Lee — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:15:02 +0000

This paper focuses on a series of reflective questions that invite practitioners to think differently about their work with children and families, especially those living in complex environments. The authors – a lived experience consultant, a practitioner, and a researcher – take readers behind-the-scenes of co-designing the paper itself, whilst exploring some of the most challenging dilemmas facing practitioners in the field.

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Supporting children in families with complex needs: Nine tips for practitioners who feel out of their depth

Amelia Payne — Sun, 24 Mar 2019 22:11:58 +0000

If you are feeling overwhelmed or out of your depth, this practice paper outlines ways in which you can begin to develop confidence in supporting children in families with complex needs.

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An overview of Emerging Minds Focus

Jacquie Lee — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 23:22:06 +0000

Learn how the Emerging Minds Focus tool can help you to motivate, plan and track quality improvement in your organisation, to support the mental health and wellbeing of infants, children and their families.

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Supporting trans and gender diverse children and their families

Jennifer Ly — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 04:39:54 +0000

Creating a safe space for a child to explore their gender identity will contribute to positive mental health outcomes. This resource provides an overview of ways to support a child who is questioning their gender identity or who has come out as trans or gender diverse. It is not designed to give medical or psychological expertise and advice on working with trans and gender diverse children.

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Engaging with parents when there are child protection concerns: Key considerations

Amelia Payne — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 07:17:21 +0000

When a family has child protection concerns, or is in contact with child protection services, effective parental engagement can be particularly challenging. This resource outlines some of the key considerations for engaging with parents in such circumstances.

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Parent-child play: Practice resource

Amelia Payne — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 00:32:11 +0000

This resource has two components: a conversation guide that practitioners can work through with families, and practitioner notes that provide support for introducing parent-child play and using the conversation guide.

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Essentials for childhood: Where prevention of child abuse is an essential element

Amelia Payne — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 01:41:01 +0000

This short article looks at how child abuse prevention can be achieved through a positively-oriented approach to child wellbeing. The key premise is that safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments are essential to prevent child abuse and neglect, and to ensure all children reach their full potential.

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3. How to support children living with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)

Jacquie Lee — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 05:30:04 +0000

This resource outlines the diverse neurocognitive challenges frequently faced by children living with FASD. It highlights some of the ways these differences may impact on children’s learning, behavioural and social development, and outlines the general principles for supporting children.

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Practicing cultural curiosity when engaging with children and families

Jacquie Lee — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 00:12:52 +0000

This paper provides an overview of some important considerations in relation to ‘culturally competent’, ‘culturally curious’ and child-focused practices when engaging with children and parents from refugee and migrant communities. It will invite you to reflect upon your current practice with children and families from migrant and refugee communities, and will also provide observations from practitioners about the successes, challenges and lessons they have experienced through adopting a culturally curious stance.

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Highlights in child mental health research: October 2018

Amelia Payne — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 00:39:44 +0000

This October research summary provides a selection of recently released systematic reviews and meta-analyses related to infant and child mental health and relevant to the work of the National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health. Abstracts and links to full-text articles, where available, are provided.

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National Framework for Health Services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Families

Amelia Payne — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 23:24:29 +0000

This National Framework for Health Services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Families (the Framework) articulates a vision, principles and approaches for the delivery of child and family health services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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In focus: What are adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)?

Jacquie Lee — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 03:47:40 +0000

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can get in the way of children’s potential, by impacting their relationships, sense of self and perceptions of the world around them. But poor outcomes are not inevitable. This resource explores how prevention and early intervention strategies, along with policies to better support families experiencing hardship, can help turn the tide on adversity.

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Prejudice-motivated bullying and its impact on child mental health and wellbeing

Jacquie Lee — Thu, 14 May 2020 06:27:00 +0000

Along with key health and wellbeing issues associated with bullying, a child experiencing prejudice-motivated bullying may also feel self-hatred or shame about their or their family's identity,
attempt to distance themselves from these identities, experience a lack of connection and belonging, or feel a diminished sense of safety in social situations, resulting in high vigilance and anxiety. This resource aims to raise awareness of and build your confidence in directly addressing prejudice-motivated bullying with children and their parents and carers, by providing a range of support strategies.

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Highlights in child mental health research: March 2019

Amelia Payne — Mon, 06 May 2019 05:21:47 +0000

This March research summary provides a selection of recently released papers, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses related to infant and child mental health.Each article is accompanied by a brief synopsis that highlights the key messages of the paper. Links to abstracts, full-text articles and related resources, where available, are provided.

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Wellbeing for workers supporting children and families after a disaster

Catherine Hoffman — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:06:37 +0000

This resource focuses on how to look after your own wellbeing as a practitioner or worker when supporting children and families after a disaster.

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Working with parents to support children after disasters

Catherine Hoffman — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:41:58 +0000

This resource focuses on how practitioners can support children after disasters. It identifies strategies for engaging with parents and using a holistic approach that recognises and tailors support to each family’s unique needs, to enhance the wellbeing, resilience and recovery of infants and children who experience disasters.

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Disaster preparedness with a focus on infants, children and families

Jacquie Lee — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:12:58 +0000

This practice paper is designed to help you understand the importance of disaster preparedness for not only increasing safety and protecting lives when a disaster occurs, but facilitating the recovery of individuals, families and communities. It also offers practical advice for supporting the disaster preparedness of the children and families you work with.

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1. What is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)?

Jacquie Lee — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 00:00:13 +0000

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) refers to a range of distinct but related developmental difficulties caused by exposure of the developing fetus to alcohol in utero. All practitioners, regardless of their role, are likely to encounter children and adults who are affected by FASD. While the impact of alcohol on a child's brain development may be irreversible, there are some pracitices which can minimise the impact of FASD on the lives of children and families.

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Establishing authentic child and family collaboration partnerships in Wesley Mission Queensland: A case study

Amelia Payne — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 23:58:37 +0000

This case study examines a partnership between Emerging Minds and Wesley Mission Queensland (WMQ) that supported WMQ to incorporate the lived experiences of children and families in the development of a new 0-12 years mental health service (Wesley Kids).

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Pre-teen social media use and the impact on mental health and wellbeing

Jacquie Lee — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 01:32:24 +0000

Get insights and tips for holding conversations with pre-teens (9–12 years) and their parents about social media use.

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Strategies for supporting the mental health of infants and children after a disaster: Support networks

Renee Naylon — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 23:57:48 +0000

In addition to the support of extended family, friends and the learning community, responses from governments and specialist mental health services plus digital resources are important to the successful recovery of children and families after a disaster.

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Highlights in child mental health research: November 2020

Jennifer Ly — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 05:15:20 +0000

This November research summary provides a selection of recently released papers, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses related to infant and child mental health. Each summary includes an introductory overview of the content for that month, followed by a list of selected articles. Each article is accompanied by a brief synopsis which presents the key messages and highlights. Links to abstracts, full-text articles and related resources, where available, are provided.

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From co-design to co-creation: Building responsive relationships and delivering outcomes with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations

Jacquie Lee — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 03:29:13 +0000

Emerging Minds develops a range of resources, tools and information for professionals working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, parents and families. As an organisation, we strive to ensure these resources are informed by First Nations peoples and grounded in the principles of self-determination. In practice, this means we work alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander consultants and organisations in genuine, culturally secure partnerships. Together, we develop resources that build the capacity of all professionals and organisations who work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families.

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Children’s mental health learning pathway

Renee Naylon — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 06:17:46 +0000

To support children’s mental health in your work, Emerging Minds has created the Children's mental health learning pathway of free online courses.

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Being seen and investing something of ourselves

Jocelyn Marsland — Thu, 30 May 2019 03:28:36 +0000

Connecting with Community wherever possible, through attending existing services or community events will give you the best opportunity to get to know Community and to be known.

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While you wait: Suggestions for service providers to support children and their families who are on waiting lists

Jennifer Ly — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 04:51:51 +0000

Service providers will often need to refer families and children to other services for specialist assessment or care. Unfortunately, waiting lists for these services are quite common, which can cause further stress for families as they continue to deal with the status quo. This short article was inspired by research into barriers and facilitators to early childhood mental health pathways in the Barwon region in southwest Victoria, with one of the barriers identified as long wait times for appointments, and the following practices were suggested by professionals interviewed for this research.

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In focus: Childhood bullying

Renee Naylon — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 07:30:56 +0000

This article explains childhood bullying, the risk factors and indicators for bullying, the effects of childhood bullying on mental health and resources to support your understanding.

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Supporting infants, children and families in an evacuation

Jacquie Lee — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:11:16 +0000

This practice paper explains why it’s important to consider pregnant people, infants, children and families in evacuation planning and management. It provides practical considerations and strategies for ensuring evacuation procedures and centres meet the needs of infants, children and families and enhance their safety, wellbeing and recovery.

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Insights for social workers supporting families with complex needs

Jacquie Lee — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 06:13:15 +0000

This literature review explores the interplay between the detrimental impacts of intergenerational disadvantage, substance use issues, mental illness, and trauma on parents and children, and the lived experience of family and domestic violence. From these varying impacts, we seek to extract implications and skills for practice.

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Strategies for supporting the mental health of infants and children after a disaster: Routines and predictability

Renee Naylon — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 23:58:17 +0000

Re-establishing routines and setting boundaries and expectations are important for restoring children's sense of stability and safety after a disaster, especially when they have to spend time away from their parents or home.

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Understanding how disasters influence infants and children

Renee Naylon — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:11:25 +0000

This practice paper aims to equip practitioners with knowledge about the ways disasters can influence a child’s ecology and the importance of targeted support for children’s resilience and recovery in the short and long term.

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Child-focused practice competencies: Structural approaches to complex problems

Jacquie Lee — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 06:14:00 +0000

Watch Professor Sarah Wendt and leading academics from Flinders University’s Social Work Innovation Research Living Space (SWIRLS) share child-focused practice strategies for supporting children and families experiencing complex problems.

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It’s time to do more about the mental health of children with intellectual disability

Jacquie Lee — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 04:51:06 +0000

Children with intellectual disability are more likely to experience mental health difficulties than their typically developing peers. Efforts towards prevention and early intervention are required from all support services in order to best promote the mental health of children with intellectual disability and their families.

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